Curtain, drapery and blind mounting plate



Oct. 22, 1957 w. w. WALLACE CURTAIN, DRAPERY AND BLIND MOUNTING PLATEFiled Feb. 7. 1955 Wayne BY INVENTOR. W Wallace ATTORNEY United StatesPatent CURTAIN, DRAPERY AND BLIND MOUNTING PLATE Wayne W. Wallace,Youngstown, Ohio Application February 7, 1955, Serial No. 486,503

3 Claims. (Cl. 248-263) This invention relates to a mounting plate fordraperies, curtains and blinds.

The principal object of the invention is the provision of a mountingplate to which brackets for supporting curtains, draperies and blindsmay be attached with various degrees of adjustment and in variouspositions.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a universalmounting plate for drapery and blind fixtures.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a mountingplate for drapery, curtain and blind fixtures incorporating means forlocking the various fixtures thereto in suitably adjusted relation.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a mountingplate which may be secured to a Window casing or a wall surface adjacenta window opening which will receive many and various forms of drapery,curtain, roller shade and Venetian blind mounting brackets to the endthat draperies, curtains, roller shades or Venetian blinds may bedesirably and safely supported thereby.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a mountingplate which may be secured on a wall surface adjacent a window openingeither by direct attachment to the wall surface or by indirectattachment to a window casing through a fixture secured in the mountingplate.

The mounting plate and the fixtures engageable therewith disclosedherein comprises an improved means for securing curtain and drapery rodsas well as roller blinds to a Window casing or to a wall surfaceadjacent a window.

Those skilled in the art will recognize that it has been common practiceto mount one or more fixtures on a window casing near the upper cornersthereof or to the wall surface adjacent the same, which fixtures areused to support various curtain and drapery rods as well as roller andVenetian blinds. Practically all manufacturers heretofore have utilizeddiiferent forms of fixture and specifically the brackets which aresecured to the window casing or wall surface and to which the actualcurtain or drapery rods, roller blinds or Venetian blinds are thenaffixed.

In rental properties the problem of continually chang ing such fixturesto meet the requirements of the various tenants is expensive as well asdamaging to the window casing and/ or wall surface adjacent the same.

The mounting plate disclosed herein eliminates the several difficultiesin that any and all forms of curtains, drapes, roller or Venetian blindsmay be quickly and in expensively secured thereto with the plateremaining in position for subsequent use by other tenants.

With the foregoing and other objects in View which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being the intention to cover all changes andmodifications of the example of the invention herein chosen for purposesof the disclosure, which do not constitute departures from the spiritand scope of the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the mounting plate.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the mounting plate;

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail of the mounting plate and a fixturepositioned therein with parts broken away.

Figure 4 is an enlarged cross section. taken on the line 44 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of an alternate form of fixture.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the-mounting plate positioned on awall surface adjacent a window opening.

By referring to the drawings and Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 in particular itwill be seen that a plate 10, preferably rectangular in shape, isprovided with flanged edges 11, three of which are apertured at spacedintervals therealong by a plurality of slot-like openings 1212. Each ofthe slot-like openings 12-12 is located in the flanged edges 11 of theplate 10 and are preferably of a configuration precluding thepossibility of inserting a flat fixture therein.

The slot-like openings 1212 are positioned so that appropriately shapedfixtures, such as shown in Figure 3 of the drawings in Figure 3 andindicated by the numeral 13, may be slidably engaged in the slot-likeopenings 12 with the innermost end portion extending inwardly adjacentthe back side of the plate 10 and into engagement with a locking cam 14which. is actuated by a screw-like head 15 located on the front surfaceof the plate 10.

The plurality of slot-like openings 12 are so arranged in the flangededge 11 of the plate 10 that a fixture positioned in any one of theopenings will engage one of a pair of cams 14 rotatably secured to theplate by the screw-like head 15.

The plate 10 isv also embossed as at 16-16 to form members engageablewith the opposite sides of the slide portion of the fixtures 13 so thatthe clamping action of the cams 14 will be suitably opposed thereby andthe fixtures secured in desiredposition to the mounting plate 10.

The plate 10 is also provided with a plurality of orifices 17 throughwhich mounting screws 18 may be positioned in mounting the plate on awindow casing or wall surface. Alternately, an L-shaped bracket 19 maybe inserted in one of the slots 12 and clamped to the mounting plate bythe adjacent cam 14 with the other end of the L-shaped bracket 19 beingaffixed to a window casing 20 by fasteners 21. Such an arrangement maybe seen by referring to Figure 6 of the drawings, and by referringthereto it will be observed that a pair of drape and curtain supportingfixtures 22 and 23, respectively, are secured in the slot-like opening12 in the plate 16) in different degrees of adjustment with respectthereto so that curtain rods may be attached to the lower inner fixture23 and drapery rods attached to the upper outer fixture 22.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that if the window casing20 extends around onto the face of the wall adjacent the Window, theL-shaped bracket 19 may be dispensed with and the mounting screws 18relied upon to secure the plate 10 in desirable position.

By referring again to Figure 3 of the drawings an enlarged detail of theembossing 16 may be seen together with a detail of one of the earns 14and its actuating screw-like head 15.

In Figure 4 of the drawings a section of the plate 11) is taken throughone of the earns 14 and it will be observed that the screw-like head 15has a threaded shank 24 thereon on which the cam 14 is threaded with thethreaded shank 24 being peened into the cam 14 as at 3 25 to render thesame fixed with respect thereto and enable the cam 14 to be rotated bythe screw-like head 15.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various sizes ofmounting plates may be made Within the scope of this disclosure and thatmore than the disclosed pair of cams 14 may be employed if desired.

In Figure 5 of the drawings a perspective view of a difierent fixturemay be seen, which fixture may be mounted to the mounting plate andsecured thereto. The fixture comprises an appropriately shaped slidesection 26 of a cross sectional shape registrable with one of theslot-like openings 12 and having an end portion 27 doubled back over theface thereof, the end portion 27 having an outturned portion 27A whichin turn is provided with a diagonally extending slot 2i in which aroller blind may be conveniently positioned.

It will be observed that the slide section 26 may be positioned in anyof the slot-like openings 12 of the mounting plates and that in additionto the adjustment thereby provided as to location, the fixture may belocated in partially or completely extended relation to the plate or intelescopic relation thereto thus enabling the particular length of therollerblind employed to be matched and accommodated.

Those skilled in the art will observe that while the drape and curtainsupporting fixtures 22 and 23 disclosed herein are of the typeterminating in forwardly projecting bifurcated hooked ends, the othertypes known in the art may be substituted to the end that any and alltypes of drapery and curtain rods may be secured to the fixtures whichare themselves adjustably secured in the mounting plate 10.

It will thus be seen that the mounting plate disclosed herein meets theseveral objects of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination of a mounting plate and a plurality of blind, drapeand curtain supporting fixtures for selective engagement therewith, saidplate comprising a rectangular body member having the edge portionthereof flanged at a substantial angle with respect thereto, said edgeportion having a plurality of spaced longitudinally extending slot-likeopenings therein for receiving said fixtures, said fixtures comprisingelongated sections registrable in said slot-like openings havingoutturned edge portions adapted to receive and retain said drapes,

curtains and blinds, cams rotatably secured to said plate inwardly fromthe edge portion and out of transverse alignment with said slot-likeopenings, portions of said cams extending through said plate andincluding screw heads on the face of said plate whereby the cams may berotated when said plate is mounted on a supporting surface. 7

2. A mounting plate for attachment to a supporting surface andincorporating means for receiving and retaining drapery, curtain andblind mounting fixtures, said fixtures having longitudinally extendingportions, flanges on the edges of said mounting plate having spacedslotlike openings therein for receiving the elongated portions of saidfixtures, guide means on the back of said plate for engaging saidelongated portions of said fixtures positioned through said slot-likeopenings and substantially square cam discs on screw-headed shankspositioned to tatably through openingsin said plate in oppositelydisposed relation to said guide means for engaging and securing saidfixtures and fasteners for securing said plate to a supporting surface.

3. A mounting plate for attachment to a supporting surface andincorporating means for receiving and retaining drapery, curtain andblind mounting fixtures, said fixtures having longitudinally extendingportions, flanges on the edges of said mounting plate having spacedslotlike openings therein for receiving the elongated portions of saidfixtures, guide means on the back of said plate for engaging saidelongated portions of said fixtures positioned through said slot-likeopenings and substantially square cam discs on screw-headed shankspositioned rotatably through openings in said plate and located on saidplate at points adjacent lines interconnecting oppositely disposedpairsof .said slot-like openings for engaging and securing said fixtures, andfasteners for securing said plate to a supporting surface.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS716,713 Hughes Dec. 23, 1902 962,185 White June 21, 1910 1,713,299 RaspMay 14, 1929 1,746,740 Rasp Feb. 11, 1930

